Isaiah 24:20
The earth shall reele to and from like a drunken man, and shall be remooued like a tent, and the iniquitie thereof shall be heauie vpon it: so that it shall fall, and rise no more.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
19The earth is vtterly broken downe: the earth is cleane dissolued: the earth is mooued exceedingly.
Cross References
Genesis 41:31Neither shall the plentie bee knowen in the land, by reason of this famine that shall come after: for it shalbe exceeding great.
Psalms 107:27They are tossed to and from, and stagger like a drunken man, and all their cunning is gone.
Isaiah 1:28And the destruction of the transgressers and of the sinners shalbe together: and they that forsake the Lord, shalbe consumed.
Isaiah 19:14The Lord hath mingled among them the spirite of errours: and they haue caused Egypt to erre in euery worke thereof, as a drunken man erreth in his vomite.
Isaiah 38:12Mine habitation is departed, and is remoued from me, like a shepheards tent: I haue cut off like a weauer my life: he will cut me off from the height: from day to night, thou wilt make an ende of me.
Jeremiah 4:24I behelde the mountaines: and loe, they trembled and all the hilles shooke.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 24:17-23
Encouraging Prospects; Degeneracy Predicted. ( b. c. 718.) 16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of… Read the whole commentary →